Collar-button.



NITED TATES PATENT FFICE.

FRANZ J. HEILBORN, OF PLAINVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

COLLAR-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,079, dated July 31, 1900.

' Application filed December 181 1899. Serial No. 740,801. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANZ J. HEILBORN, a

citizen of the United States, residing at and whose post-oflice address is Plainville, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Collar-Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

' My invention relates toa collar-button provided with a hook adapted to be either turned outward to engage with the necktie or cravat to prevent it from slipping upwardly or to be turned back to its seat at the head of the button and used as an ordinary co1lar button; and my invention consists in the employment with the head of a collar-button of a pivotally-held hook, ashereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side view of a collar-button provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 represents an end view of the button. Fig. 3 represents a section taken in the line 8 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4: represents an end view showing the hook turned back to its seat at the head of the button. Fig. 5 represents a side and end view of the hook.

In the drawings, a represents the head of a collar-button, and b the shoe connected with the head by means of the flat post 0, whereby the button will be prevented from turning in the buttonhole. The head of the button is provided with the cap d, having its edges turned over the edges of the head 6 of the post 0, the said cap being so formed as to provide a spring-socket f, adapted to receive the 3 5 angular shank g of the hook g, and I prefer ably form the indentations h it upon either side of the socket f to form a seat for the hook when the same is turned back to the surface of the head, as shown in Fig. 4. When the whenthe hook is turned back to its seat at the head of the button, as shown in Fig. 4, the angularly-formed shank will prevent its outward movement and hold it in its backward position, in which the head of the button may be readily passed through the buttonhole, and the hook may then be turned outward for use.

I claim as my invention-- In a collar-button, the combination of the shoe, the flat post, the head, and the socket in the head, with the hook having its shank held in the socket, and adapted for turning movement transversely of the hook, substantially as described.

FRANZ J. HEILBORN.

Witnesses SOORATES SOHOLFIELD, HARRY J. GAROEAU. 

